Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

This project investigates an interesting question: If one learns to write backwards, is one also able to read backwards?

How would you dry your wet clothes if your dryer didn't work? Find out with this fun experiment!

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Get ready for Halloween with a pumpkin mask made from construction paper!

Full of charm and creative possibilities, this fun hat will be ready for playtime in no time.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

For this activity your child will use the ready made glycerin base to create elegant rose petal hand soaps.

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Before you get ready for a delicious scramble or omelet, add a bit of science to your morning routine!

Are you ready to pilot your own airplane? Well, then take to the skies with this high-flying project!

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

Craft a pirate telescope using an old paper towel roll, and get ready for some goofy pirate adventures!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Is your kindergartener having trouble picking outfits for the rapidly cooling weather? This handy dressing wheel makes getting ready a breeze!

Ready for easy cheese making? Cooking is an art and a science, and it's great hands-on learning. Plus it's fun!

Play with, explore, and describe everyday objects with your preschooler to get her ready to learn basic math skills and concepts.

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Let your child celebrate the season with this recycled craft that turns paper tubes into sweet reindeer ready to be filled with holiday goodies.

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Grab some rope and a couple of rafts and you're ready to play Rope Rush, an exciting race game for the pool!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.